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Unit 9: “If” by Rudyard Kipling

9.8 Review Questions Notes

1. Who is referred to in the stanza? State the background of the writing of the poem ‘If”.
2. What is the mood of this poem. Why?
3. Who do you think the poet is talking to and why?
4. Do you agree with the speaker? Explain

5. What does “if you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors
just the same” mean?

Answers: Self Assessment

1. The poem is named “If-” because every sentence of this poem begins with the word “if”.
2. Yes! It has a very set poem pattern.
3. It was either ‘Baa, Baa, Black Sheep’ or a fiction book called ‘Plain Tales from the Hills’.
Its still sketchy on which one is right but it is one of these.
4. Because he was bored that day and just remembered an inspirational speech his father
gave him, and so he wrote it from that.

9.9 Further Readings

Books Jaume Pujol-Galceran; Manel Serras (2008-08-14). Rafael Nadal: Maître sur terre.
Editions Prolongations. p. 6. ISBN 978-2-916400-39-6.
René Stauffer (2007-06-25). The Roger Federer Story: Quest for Perfection. New Chapter
Press. p. 104. ISBN 978-0-942257-39-7.

“Ayn Rand biography”. Jewish Women in America. Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved
6 September 2012.
“Crocker, Petraeus Address Report on Iraq ‘Progress’”. The Washington Post. 12
September 2007. Retrieved 6 September 2012.
“Rudyard Kipling Readings by Ralph Fiennes”. Allmusic. Retrieved 11 November 2012.
“Boardwalk Empire Watch: Season 3, Episode 11 - Two Imposters”. Cinema Blend.com.
Retrieved 29 November 2012.

Online links www.w3.org/WAI/eval/considerations.html

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